Founded in 1997, with a cumulative budget volume of over 800 million dollars, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments is one of the largest corporate venture funds in the technology industry. The group has made over 200 investments and manages a current portfolio of around 70 companies, including several "unicorns".

Partnership

We understand that it takes more than capital to be successful, and provide the highly-sophisticated strategic, functional and operational venture building expertise essential to the development of great companies. We partner with the people and the companies we invest in.

Synergies

Deutsche Telekom invests in innovation internally, in the network core, and outside of the core, via the technology ecosystem in which we participate. We believe it is essential that we intelligently apply a certain amount of capital to finance and encourage external innovation that we might ultimately be able to integrate into the network directly, or develop via commercial relationships. The return that we see on this investment is not just financial, related to the capital invested, but also economically relevant to the commercial potential of the new and exciting solutions we offer customers.

Innovation

As Europe’s leading telecommunications company, innovation is in Deutsche Telekom’s DNA. We believe that the convergence of communications networks and devices with the internet, a market comprising over seven billion connected customers and over 50 billion devices, will create more wealth, disrupt more businesses, and unleash more innovation than any force in the history of technology. We invest at the forefront of this mobile internet convergence wave.

Why Deutsche Telekom?

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines. The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.